A tour of Como with a funicular ride and a lake cruise

City,funicular,lake, a perfect combination to get an “all in one” overview of Como and its surrounding. Your guide will lead you to a city highlights tour, showing you the Duomo, the San Fedele Basilica and its homonymous piazza, the main city door, Porta Torre and the city walls. Following you will take the Como-Brunate funicular, a cable way that departing from the lake reaches in about 8 minutes the neighborhood of Brunate, located at 715 meters above see level. From this natural balcony the view is fantastic: the old structure of the “Castrum” , the old Roman town is perfectly visible moreover a huge part of the western Alps arch show up in front of you, while the sight towards the flats reaches the Appenino chain.

Once returned down to Como enjoy a panoramic cruise with a boat form the public navigation. The circular tour will reach some of the most beautiful and characteristic villages of the firs basin of the lake. The lake must be seen from the lake, from where the prospective changes completely and gives you the possibility to admire glimpses that otherwise would remain secluded and hidden.

Your guide can meet you directly at your hotel, if located downtown, otherwise you can easily meet her in front of Hotel Barchetta, downtown Como. If you are coming from Milan, your guide can meet you directly at your station of arrival. See here how to reach Como form Milan